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Is world citizenship the solution to statelessness?

What does it mean to be state-less?

Edinburgh University Press
June 25, 2026

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How food shapes peace, conflict, and human connection in everyday life

A Conversation with Dr. Elaine Pratley, author of Hungry for Peace

Edinburgh University Press
June 23, 2026

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The Revolving Door at 10 Downing Street

Is the role of prime minister too difficult to perform successfully?

Edinburgh University Press
June 11, 2026

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Lessons from Scottish Schools

Lindsay Paterson discusses Scotland’s educational decline and the social inequality of attainment.

Edinburgh University Press
May 14, 2026

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Agonistic memory in protracted conflicts

Q&A with Lisa Strömbom, author of the book Agonistic Memory and Peace. Colombia, Northern Ireland and Israel-Palestine.

Edinburgh University Press
March 31, 2026

The politics of contemporary lynching in Mexico

Understanding lynching as political does not excuse it. On the contrary, it sharpens the urgency of addressing it.

Edinburgh University Press
March 27, 2026

Common Sense: Between Democratic Promise and Political Peril

Thomas Telios considers common sense as a contested and performative concept shaping democratic discourse and political exclusion.

Edinburgh University Press
March 2, 2026

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What do hundreds of documentaries on genocide say about perpetrators?

After analysing over two-hundred documentaries, Julian Koch explains how genocidal 'perpetrators' are more complex than representational schemata of violent hatred and racism suggest

Edinburgh University Press
February 24, 2026

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Autopoietic Machines

Rethinks the concept of power in relation to an emerging form - sensory power

Is world citizenship the solution to statelessness?

How food shapes peace, conflict, and human connection in everyday life

The Revolving Door at 10 Downing Street

Lessons from Scottish Schools

Agonistic memory in protracted conflicts

The politics of contemporary lynching in Mexico

What do hundreds of documentaries on genocide say about perpetrators?

Autopoietic Machines

The Odyssey and Existentialist Anti-Adventure

6 Things About Irish Literature and Periodical Culture You Probably Didn’t Know

The Battle for the Soul of the Edinburgh Fringe

A Lifetime Exploring the Achaemenid Empire

Arthur Conan Doyle in Egypt